What is your favorite Science Fiction or Space TV show , movie or you can include both in your post.

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58. SF my favorite genre! (then political dramas, some law [the Good Wife, the Good Fight, L&O], certain comedies)...

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I enjoy all the Treks old & Nu. Original ST viewer back in the day.
TV Favorites: Enterprise, Voyager, DS9. SNW. Discovery.

To my surprise, and I wasn't looking: I watched 2 series that I found even better than Trek.

In real time back then Person of Interest. It's a mix of crime solving, and SF that gets more, and more ramped up!

A reclusive billionaire, computer genius Harold Finch receives a social security number, and has to find out whether that person is a criminal, or victim. He has a sort of gun for hire John Reese (retired AF, and ?CIA), also acts as investigator in the field, that also a protector for him, and the victim if determined. Harold goes out to do electronic, and computer stuff in their efforts. The SS# is generated by a machine that he invented code wise, with some electrical & electronics skills, along with his engineer partner Nathan.

He, Harold (the computer genius], and John also get entwined with 2 NYPD Dectives; Joss Carter, and Lionel Fusco.Two other important women Root/Ms Groves, and Samin, characters will emerge as part of this Team Machine. Series mostly takes place in NYC: Manhattan & Queens in particular.

This (The) Macine becomes more, and more prominent near the end of season 1.
Then in S2 "something wicked comes this way" and it isn't just a human.
4 full, and 1 last half season.
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Fringe. I watched this for 1 1/2 seasons. I think it got moved to cable, or I had trouble w a roommate who didn't want to watch it anymore.

At some point ?15 years later I remembered it, or saw a mention about it. Now I had a tablet, and then found it on Amazon's free streaming platform.

A son, Peter Bishop, is asked to free his genius but sometimes unstable [possibly too much LSD, and other pyschotropic drugs & 'shrooms] scientist father, Walter Bishop from a mental institution to aid a secret group of FBI agents: the Fringe Division [agents Olivia Dunhan, Director & agent Broyles, FBI agent adjunct Astrid Farnsworth ] who investigate very strange events, and crimes. Violent events, strange human medical stuff, strange Nature events, and more.

They also get involved with a gigantic Inventions Corporation: Massive Dynamics; director Nina Sharpe. The father, and William Bell who eventually is revealed [it's a surprise of an actor late in his career] did work 20 - ?30 yrs ago for the DOD which MD was contracted with.

Things get even stranger when we the viewers, and they; the characters discover "there is more than one of everything".
Soooo good!

I repeat watch both of these, and want to turn other SF fans on to these! 🙂👍
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The Handmaid’s Tale

If it wasn't done sooo well I don't think I'd watch it. Often quietly terrifying! Sometimes violently so, in addition to the pivitol crime against The Handmaids.

Waiting for S6. Someone mentioned something, and I got spoiled for a major plot point in the future. Then there's The Testimonials which I haven't read yet. They were supposed to film that, too. Read THT back when it came out in paperback ?mid '80s, or from the library.

Movies:

ST> The Voyage Home, The Undiscovered Country; NG - First Contact.

SW: ESB, ROJ, #1, #3, #8, #9. Rouge One.

🤔 What else....
Interstellar.
Jurassic Park.
Jurassic World.
Oh, how could I forget.....
Forbidden Planet!